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Casey Jenkins

Casey Jenkins is a performance artist, craftivist and rabble-rouser. She co-founded and runs radical craft group Craft Cartel, which aims to subvert and honour art techniques often disparaged as 'women's work', has produced female-only biff-fest Femme Fight Club in Melbourne, Bristol and Berlin, queer-feminist podcast, Cunts In Space, founded the Knit Your Revolt craft activist group and Aussie branch of French satirical bearded feminist group La Barbe. She is an active street artist, most notably with her Cunt Fling-Up work (crafted female genitalia attached to shoes and flung over power-lines in the manner gangs fling shoes) with which she has adorned the streets of London, New York, and Paris, from the Eiffel Tower to Vatican City's Basilica. She recently launched a travelling craftivist workshop project, femiNEST, which will tour around the country hosting hands-on events where feminists can meet, skill-share and multiply. Her website is here

March 2015

  • body of work

    Australia culture blog
    I'm selling myself as art, and you pick the price. But what is work, anyway?

    Casey Jenkins
    During my three week performance art project, Body of Work, I’ll do just about any kind of work - and you set the wage

December 2013

  • I'm the 'vaginal knitting' perfomance artist – and I want to defend my work

    Casey Jenkins
    Casey Jenkins: As an artist, of course I do seek attention – I want to express and communicate ideas, and refuse to feel compunction for that. Even in the face of criticism, I will make no apologies for my art